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t Royal Satyrion or finger Orchis is cal- 

 led in Lanne/V//fc* C^r//?/ ; notwith (landing 

 there is another hearbe or plant called by the 

 fame name, which othenvile is called Ricinm. 

 This plant is called likewife o£tome J Satyrittm 

 Bafilicumjox Satyr turn regium. Some would Ixaue 

 it to be Buzeiden.ox Bu^tdan Ardum. But Avi- 

 cm foit\Buz,ti den is a woody Indian raedicin : 

 and Serapio faith, Buzeiden be hard white roots 

 like thole of Behcn al6um > m& that it is an Indi- 

 an drug : but contrariwife the roots of Palm* 

 Cbrifliaxc nothing leflc than woody, fo that it . 

 cannot be the &vaz*Matthiolat would haue Sa- 

 tyrion royal to be the Digiti Citrini of Auiccn^ 

 finding fault with the Monkes which let forth 

 Commentaries vpon t^Mefues Compofitions, 

 for doubting, and leaning it to the judgement 

 of the difcreet Reader. Yet do we better allow 

 of the Monks doubt, than ofMattbiolus his af- 

 fertion : for Avicens words be thefe ; What is 

 AfaLtfafra^or Digiti Citrini ? and anfwering rhe 

 doubthimfeIfe,hefaith,Itisin floureorfhape 

 , like the palm of a mans hand, of a mixt colour 

 between yellow and white , and it is hard , in 

 which there is a little fweetne(Te,and there is a 

 Citrine fort dufty & without fweetneffe. Rka- 

 fis al fo in the laft booke of h is Continent calls 

 thefeyDigitiCrocei, or Saffron fingers* andhee 

 faith it is a gum or vein for Diers. Now thefe 

 roots are nothing; leffe than of a Saffron co!our,and wholly vnfit for dying. Wherefore doubt Jefle 



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m and Rhafis in the eares of men of iudgement do confirme, Tfc 

 Chrifti,zxt not thofe Digiti Citrim. The Germans call it CtCUtfolllttt 



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i nc roots of batynon royall are like to Cynoforchis, or Dogs ftones, both in fauor and tafte, and 

 taerefore are thought by fomc tobe of like faculties. Yet Nicola** Nicofa, in the Chapter of the 



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m commcthjis a goodremedie againft old Quartans after purgation : and reportcth.That one Ba- 

 ^'#/«; after he had endured 44 fit Sj was cured therewith . 



* &w^pUe°for?,^ T>odM*«*,and he out of Nieohs^iue to the root of TalmaChrifti, X doubt if nvrtaken & fvz 



^k'.noirthcwWcroo^ for that Afaofr* faith apiece o r ^oocrouftbc taken asloooas oac* 



auicroototta.sphntisnotfo l ong . And bdticsfticim* iskaownc to banc a vomitorie purging faculty. • T 





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